I have a new plaything, at a distance. This post isn’t really about her, though. It’s about AI. But the two are connected.
This new playing is sufficiently generous with sharing herself on Zoom that I’ve come to understand she’ll happily show me her body in anything she owns — or anything I might buy her. I’ve never had any particular problem with being generous when it comes to clothing a partner. I like dressing women. An analyst of mine once pointed out that I play with women a little like some girls play with dolls. Fair enough.
So as she and I were discussing lingerie I might buy her, I found myself frustrated — as I often am — by the e-commerce experience of lingerie boutiques. Jade mentioned she’s a fan of La Perla, which I discovered is now effectively defunct. Her second suggestion was a store I hadn’t encountered before: Intimissimi. They sell lots of fun stuff. But like virtually every e-commerce site in existence, it is not designed for a leering fantasist such as myself.
What I actually want is to review 100 or 200 options efficiently, and to select among them with some pleasure and intention. The standard hellish Shopify product grid, buried behind filters and pagination, just doesn’t do it.
Inspired by my recent project organizing and presenting my porn collection, I went to Perplexity and asked it to help me generate a prompt for Claude Code — specifically to build me a locally served website presenting my options. Initially: just bodysuits by Intimissimi. But designed from the start to accommodate more content — more categories, more vendors — down the road.
If all goes well, I’ll share the fruits of my labor in the coming days. At minimum, a screenshot. Maximally, something functional you can actually poke around in.
Suffice it to say: I’ve solved the problem, at least as it relates to my personal experience of shopping for lingerie. This isn’t a dynamic site. It doesn’t update in real time to reflect inventory changes. But on a static basis — on the day it was created — it’s pretty damn good. And if it leads me to something that’s out of stock, that strikes me as a manageable, negligible, and nonetheless still arousing problem to have.
As it stands, the site is just Intimissimi bodysuits. Over the next few days, I’ll add items from other vendors: upscale, like Agent Provocateur; downscale, perhaps, like Yandy, Gooseberry, or even Shein; and in between, Jeunesse and Fleur du Mal. The more the merrier.
It’s definitely helping me envision all the different ways I might dress her pretty body.
Header image prompt (openai): Large-format still life photography, shot on 4×5 film with a single hard sidelight raking from the left, casting long sharp shadows across a white lacquered surface. A single bodysuit — oyster silk with delicate lace trim — is laid perfectly flat and empty, arranged with uncanny precision, as if someone just stepped out of it a moment ago or has not yet arrived. The light is too clinical, too bright, the white too white, the garment too composed. The perfection of the arrangement is exactly what unsettles.